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Stephen Macknik

Neuroscientist, Author

Stephen Macknik received his PhD at Harvard University before training with Nobel Laureate David Hubel at Harvard Medical School. Macknik is currently an Empire Innovator Scholar and a Professor of Ophthalmology, Neurology, and Physiology/Pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn. His research has won international scientific awards including The 2012 EyeTrack Prize and the 2013 Research Initiative Award from The American Epilepsy Society. Macknik’s internationally bestselling book, Sleights of Mind won the 2013 Prisma Prize for Best Science Book of the Year, and was named as one of the Best Books of the Year by The Evening Standard (London). His new book with co-author Susana Martinez-Conde, Champions of Illusion, is available from your favorite bookseller.

Past Programs Featuring Stephen Macknik

Participants

Kubi Ackerman is the Director of the Future City Lab at the Museum of the City of New York. Ackerman has been conducting design-based research in New York City since 2004. His work focuses on urban design strategies for resilience, with a particular focus on urban food systems, green infrastructure, transportation, and energy.

Recognized mathematician and science writer Amir D. Aczel is the author of numerous books that have appeared on various bestseller lists in the United States and abroad, with translations into 22 languages. Present at the Creation: The Story of CERN and the Large Hadron Collider is his most recent literary contribution.

Dany Spencer Adams explores how ions moving among cells act as signals during regeneration, development, and cancer. She has uncovered evidence that bioelectric signals can trigger and regulate diverse complex processes that include gene expression changes.

Apoorv Agarwal is a fourth year doctoral student in the Computer Science department at Columbia University, New York City. His areas of interest and specialization are Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning.

Dr. Bhavna Agrawal, a leading researcher at IBM, is bringing education and artificial intelligence technology together to help solve various problems in elementary and higher education. Some of her latest work involved working with automatic recognition of children’s speech.